Believe it or not but yesterday, I've spent my whole day with a car seller and the car seller wasn't even a woman with wonderful breasts. No, not at all, his name is Daniel and he's around mid-fifties... Let me explain how that occured:
Yesterday, I had an appointment at 9:30 am at a Kia car store after that I found two interesting pre-owned cars on their website. After testing the first car (a Nissan Versa), I wanted to try the second one, a Kia Forte, which interested me more. The problem is that the seller has never managed to find this car, not even after several phone calls, nor after a long "wild-goose chase" that took us to a car retailer, few miles from the Kia store but without finding it.
The good point of this long-lasting car purchase is that I've learned typical american idioms such as "wild-goose chase" that means : "a worthless chase or hunt; a futile pursuit"
Coming back to my story, it was about 11:00 am when we gave up with this Kia Forte chase. Luckily, the seller had another used Kia Forte that I was able to try this time. As I was interested in the car, we began a long business discussion that took us to an agreement at around 1:00 pm (I don't give you all the details with another seller and the sales department manager coming in at different times to explain to me the wonderful bargain it was...)
Then it took us an extra hour to fill in all the paper work and at the end, the finance manager of the store asked the seller to go with me to the bank to get a cashier check for the car. As the store also required a valid car insurance, I took my seller with me at the insurance company and he quietly waited for me in the car. At 3:30, bank and insurance were all set, but as I had to pick up the kids at the bus at 4:00 pm, I proposed to my seller to wait for the kids at home in front of a cup of coffee.
We finally drove back to the store, which is at a 20 min drive with good weather conditions, to finish the purchase. At 5:30 pm, I left the store driving our Dodge, followed by the seller in his own car and by another seller from the garage in our new Kia as they nicely proposed to drive the new car to our house. In the meantime, the weather had completely changed and it took us 40 min in a snow storm to get to the house.
6:30 pm was the end of this endless car purchase.!
PS :
- some of you may wonder why the seller came with me for all this administration work (bank, insurance...). He explained to me that it's because many customers say they will come back to buy the car but they often change their minds. The store wanted to be sure not to lose a precious client!
- here is another interesting idiom I've learned during this day : "bumper to bumper warranty", a warranty that includes all part of the vehicle from the front to the rear bumper.
Quelle épopée !!! J'en ai mal au ventre… c'était pareil pour la télé ???
RépondreSupprimerforcément non ... il n'y a pas de pare-choc à leur télé (enfin j'espère :-)
SupprimerJe suis tout à fait d'accord avec vous, mais je profite de l'occasion
RépondreSupprimerpour vous signaler que je fais une exception notable en consultant
votre blog anglophile.
En effet, je n'ai pas pour habitude de parcourir des lignes rédigées
dans la langue communément appelée de Shakespeare, mais que
pour ma part je qualifierai plutôt de celle de la perfide Albion et ce
en parfait accord avec le grand-oncle à mon papa... Hans.
Je veux bien faire un effort pour vous, mais sachez que cela durera
trois ans et pas un mois de plus.
Ensuite mes échanges avec vous se feront par SMS puis au-delà
de quatre ans par minitel, très belle invention Française
injustement ignorée par tout le reste du monde.
Content Gilles que tu te sois enfin blogué à l'eau pour nous gratifier de tes saillies truculentes.
SupprimerPromis, si tu te sens plus à l'aise, je demanderai à Catherine d'écrire des articles dans la langue d'Angela. Quant au minitel, je pensais justement percer le marché américain des télécoms grâce à ça. Si tu veux t'associer à moi et me faire un premier versement de 30 000 $ pour assurer le fond de roulement, je peux te garantir que dans quelques mois : à nous l'Amérique!
Belle conquête en perspective en effet, mais toute armée doit
Supprimeravoir immanquablement une base arrière pour triompher.
KIA: Killed In Action ! :) I'm think I need to ask VOODOO Larry not to put a blame on you :)
RépondreSupprimerA KIA, Oh my god.
Joan,
SupprimerI was sure to hurt you by doing this and I have even thought of lying concerning this second car. I hope that you will forgive us...
At least the Dodge is a 3,6L V6 ; not too bad even if not a V8?
I must admit that the KIA 10 year warranty on the powertrain sounded very convincing to me, knowing my really poor mechanical skills.
This is what you sould have bought to cruise in Munster:
RépondreSupprimerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMUJufiSM2U
bon et ben moi en bonne mère de famille: qui s'est occupé des enfants à l'arrivée du car??? c'est bien ces histoires de voiture mais les enfants sont quand meme prioritaires..
RépondreSupprimeret en accord avec Gilles, je lirai votre anglais quand pendant 2,5 ans après stop mais d'un autre cote cela est bon pour nous et notre progression donc un article de temps en temps pourquoi pas...